Ok, this is the City as Sgt. Friday would say. Every year it's the City. But outside of Superman and Fritz Lange this year's theme just doesn't send up any obvious flares of creativity in my cranium. How about some inspiration anybody?

Marscrumbs wrote:Ok, this is the City as Sgt. Friday would say. Every year it's the City. But outside of Superman and Fritz Lange this year's theme just doesn't send up any obvious flares of creativity in my cranium. How about some inspiration anybody?

As someone who is currently struggling with having to cancel my installation for this year I would throw out the following ideas...

1) The invisible conflict between those who build/maintain a city and the elite that take it for granted as a playground to pursue decadence (nod to Lang's depiction of class structure.)

2) The illusion that compressing people together into minimal space is healthier than allowing individuals to explore open spaces.

3) Villages change when they become towns, when they become cities, when the grow beyond anything we have conceived/manifest as a species to date.

4) The fabrication of frameworks of appropriate behavior in order support the collective best interests of people that can not understand underlying necessity for such structures.

5) Urban vs. suburban.

6) Where we will be two hundred years for now when one hundred years ago we didn't have street lights. What will be rewired to maintain order?

7) The evolution of intoxication used to cope with with Metropolitan living.

8) The city as moral compass.

10) metropolitan vs rural "fashion" and aesthetic values

11) Technological necessity to enable urban progress

12) Folk art vs. Metropolitan art

Or these are the near drunken ramblings of a sad artist that doubts he will be able to contribute this year... :(

Look it up, watch, you may not agree--but I feel this would fit the theme, sort of. Anything city-like and futuristic of human cities becoming our haven and hell all at the same time....

Here's a short bit of lyrics from one of the songs in the musical:
Industrialization has crippled the globe(Enjoy GeneCo's day and nighttime formula of Zydrate)Nature failed as technology spread(Ask a gentern if Zydrate is right for you)And in this wake, a market erected(Buying Zydrate from an unlicensed source is illegal)An entire city built on top of the deadAnd you can finance your bones and your kidneysFor every market, a sub-market grows.But best you be punctual with making your paymentsLest it be you on the concrete below.